Example Sentences

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When she asked her students why they were tilting their heads up and around they explained they were glancing at the theatre itself.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2023

We were glancing around at each other, and we were spread throughout the room.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2022

Now Sharpton and Crump, who represented the family of Minneapolis police victim George Floyd and now is representing Valentina’s family, were glancing toward the doors behind them at City of Refuge.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2022

Andreessen is tomorrow’s advance man, routinely laying out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015

And the women tip-tapping their heels on the pavement tripped sometimes on the sidewalk cracks because they were glancing at the trees to see where that pure, soft but steady light was coming from.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison